It’s no secret Cape Town is the hottest destination in South Africa for outdoor music festivals. These are just a few of our favourite Cape Town festivals that we’re VERY excited for this 2018 – 2019 season!

The world’s best psytrance festivals include the likes of Boom Festival, HillTop, Vortex Open Source, Ozora Festival, Rainbow Serpent, Universo Paralello, Momento Demento and dozens more across the continents of Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Wherever you go in the world, a psytrance festival can be found to suit your particular experience and travel needs.

With progressive music slowing down and producers ditching it for more psychedelic styles, the genre is going through a relatively meteoric rise; a renaissance if you will. However, make no mistake that the artists featured here in the best of 2018 list are some of the best psytrance artists around. Are you ready to find out the best releases of the year?

Are you looking to experiment with becoming a DJ? These affordable budget DJ controllers are a great entry point without breaking the bank. They also include enough features to keep you busy and work your way up to becoming a professional performer. The budget DJ…

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Planning on traveling soon? If you’re a South African passport holder, you’ll find out below which countries you can travel to visa free. South Africa has the 50th best overall passport for travel, improving from its ranking last year. It is the third best African…

Since its origins in the 1990s, psytrance music has been known to create several offshoots of sub-genres including full on, Goa, psychill, darkpsy and more. Here’s a few of our best psytrance related albums that helped shape the genre we know today.

Phonophilia is defined as the love of sounds and for everyone at Phonix Records, 8 years into their label’s journey, the love for classic night psychedelic sounds stays true. With that in mind, Gayle Adams, partner and co-manager at Phonix Records, started her own journey…